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The Importance of Listening - When, and why

R.

Welcome back to another blog post folks.

Listening. It's something we do every day, without really acknowledging it or appreciating it. It's something we are so used to that when we lose it, instant regret flushes through our systems. Hence, since Pn Monica gave us this topic this week, let's talk about the importance of listening.

Listening is a mean to understand what a person or an object is trying to convey with audio signals. Just like how an animal has mating calls and roars, humans have languages, which, without doubt, makes thing easier to understand. For humans, at least.

So, when do we listen?

Just like everything else, this depends on the situation of course. Most of the time, in class, you should be listening to whatever your teachers are teaching, be it English, Malay, Chinese or Physics, Chemistry or Biology. Listening is key when learning as teachers will provide an insight to said topics, allowing a better understanding of the topics, and thus enabling you to score during an actual test. Besides, listening is also important to take in important details, such as experiences from your parents so you can cope better with the future, or bits of advice from reputable sources, e.g. parents, teachers and elders.

Occasionally, listening can bring about the downfall of a person. Say, you have an ambition, an ambition so ambitious so much so that people look down on you and feed your negative opinions. Right now, if you listen to those negative opinions and let it affect you, welp, there goes your confidence and the rest of your ambitious ambition. That's why listening has it times.

Listening is an important aspect of our lives, be it beneficial or destructive. Sometimes, its better to lend your ears to someone, while other times its better to hear no evil.

That's all for this week's blog post, have a nice weekend.

Cheers,
Chua.

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